Wouldn't using the Pentium option disallow using Celerons or AMD's??

> On Monday 20 October 2003 22:53, Mikhail wrote:
> > On 09:07 Mon 20 Oct     , brett holcomb wrote:
> > > Yes, if you compile for an AMD and put it on a K6 I can
> > > see where it would break.  But shouldn't it work if you
> > > compile each machine for itself - that is on the 486 you
> > > install Gentoo with 486 optimization, the AMD gets it's
> > > own optimization, etc.  A cluster isn't much use if it has
> > > to have all identical hardware.
> >
> > well - that's how openmosix works. app. is being ran on 
> another node. So I
> > would say it is very close to if you run binary on another 
> machine by
> > copying it over there and executing.
> >
> > That's the problem with optimization - if you run binary on 
> PI, [binary is]
> > optimized for Athlon, - most likely it will not work over 
> there. Yes, you
> > can have mixed hardware on openmosix cluster - just use the same
> > optimization on all nodes (e.g. march=i586, etc. So that 
> you are sure all
> > nodes will be able to run it).
> 
> You don't need to have the same optimization; you just need 
> to be able to 
> support the minimum hardware. eg:
> P1: -march=pentium -mcpu=pentium
> P4: -march=pentium -mcpu=pentium4
> 
> It won't give you as good a optimization as your regular 
> -march=pentium4 but 
> it will give you the best of both world.
> 

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